Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said bent, big-boned "Old Muley" Doughton: "We face the job of performing a delicate major operation, and when a doctor has to do that, he studies his patient. He doesn't rush in and operate without extreme care, or he will lose the patient...
...bent on suicide, as popularly supposed. He will die, if he has to, but not eagerly. He is human; he can be cowed. Best description of his sensations in the face of death appears in Wheat and Soldiers, written by a young soldier after a year in China...
Cheery as a birthday sing-o-gram, that message boomed through the loudspeaker of a British ship, one of several anchored brazenly last week off the German-held Lofoten Islands on Norway's jagged northwestern coast. Bearers of the greeting were Britain's tough Commandos, bent on destruction of radio equipment guiding German shipping along the Axis sea route to the Arctic fighting front in Russia...
...women who want to help-but who are baffled by the civilian crazy quilt of air-raid wardens, spotters, first-aid workers, American Women's Voluntary Services, Red Cross, and local organizations bent on everything from driving ambu lances to shooting down parachutists-this bill looked like the answer. Day after Mrs. Rogers introduced it, her mailbag bulged enthusiastically. The only kicks came from women over 45, who wanted the age limit raised...
...proceed with the Unit into foreign service as its director. The request for Dr. Cutler's release was made because of the pressing need for his services in Boston in his vital capacities as Moseley Professor of Surgery at the Medical School, as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and as director of the Medical Division of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...